Saturday May 20th 2023
Today is the first festival of the year and we’re off to Cookham Moor in Berkshire.
It’s as if we’ve never been away…
Picking up Roy at the garage nearest the M62 is also a familiar view…
So it’s off we go…
We had a good selection of DVD’s to watch…
but thought we’d leave them till after breakfast stopping at Keele services.
We didn’t stay long then got back on the bus to find the DVD player wasn’t actually working…
Oh well, back to the conversation…
Only thing to look forward to now is to find a nice country pub along the way…
Continuing our theme of visiting English Civil War battlegrounds, we decided to look for a pub in the village of Cropredy, Oxfordshire where in 1644 the battle of Cropredy Bridge took place.
Just a minute’s drive up the road we arrive at our destination…
The Brasenose Arms…
Inside we ordered some food and our beer of choice…
Crystal malts combine with spring-harvested Pale Ale varieties Concerto and Propino, to give Pride its inimitable depth and balance.
We sat outside and I tried a selfie…
Food was good…
Only time for one drink so we headed back to the van…
We were still about an hour or so away from the venue and by now the temperature had soared…
We continued to press the PS button…
but to no avail… and as we didn’t want to be cooked on the way to Cookham, we opened the window to try and cool down!
Soon enough we arrived at Cookham Moor…
Backstage looking good…
We had a quick look at the running order…
and went out front to have a look around and to watch Space…
The photo’s of Space were taken by a fellow scouser and photographer living in Cookham, Mick Vogel.
We enjoyed bumping into him and having our picture taken with him.
We were on after Space so time for Carl to have a quick ice cream…
and get backstage again
The crowd were building up outside as it was nearly time for us to go on…
Great reception!
Got very hot on stage
The crowd were fantastic !
After the show we hooked up with Mick again…
who kindly let us use his photos for the blog!
A great start to this years festival season!
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